2015 SEPTEMBER

September 2015

The first weekend in September is always Peach Days, and since David Stirland roped me into being over the Peach Days 12k our first week of September was filled with all things Peach Days 12K. This year since I new I would be freshly postpartum I put together a committee, Tricia Michler, Leesha Jones, Lindsey Hurst, Amy and Ashlee, Megan Gatlin, and Erin Woodbury were the dream team. They were a ton of help, so I wasn't so overwhelmed. The little guy turned 1 month! Took some pictures to document the cuteness we call Jack. His sleep is still sporadic some nights will be great others not so great. It is when the other two monsters wake up that life gets real the next day.  I read a meme the other day that said RAISING TINY HUMANS IS EXHAUSTING which I agree with wholeheartedly! They are enormous amounts of fun and frustration all wrapped into a tiny human body. I feel like I have so much more patience than I did with Gus. If I didn't sleep at night with Gus I felt like the whole world was batting against me, now I don't know what 8 straight hours is so it is my new normal now. Just another day with zip amounts of sleep. Jack met serious powers Grandpa this month and Fenella. He gave Gus and Oliver trucks a long time ago that are super annoying and say I've got serious power over and over and over and over again so Gus has always just called him serious powers grandpa. Gus played soccer again his coaches were DJ and Megan Meis. He was very timid the first couple of games, timid enough that at one of them I had to hold his hand and run around the field with him wherever the ball was. Then after the first couple he was right at home. He scored one goal, and was very close nearly every game. Our little Henrietta left to the Alpine Germany mission. We went to his setting apart, he seemed very excited and not nervous at all. Our Stake President counseled us to pray for the missionaries and to specifically by name pray for the ones in our ward. He said they will be blessed and we will be too. So every night we pray for the 9 or 10 missionaries we have in our ward. It took us awhile to get all of their names, some nights I feel like we forget one or two of them, but we never forget our little Henrietta. Kyle went with Funder Welding to do a job at some guys house and he had a random statue of a pirate. I thought it was from Tuacahn becuase he also sells to them, but nope some random dude has a legit pirate. Weird. We took the boys to the round up days festival and Kyle rode the mechanical bull. He lasted maybe 3 seconds and thats pushing it. We went to lots of high school football games to watch Nicholas play. I made the boys Mcdaniel shirts to where to the game. I took a bunch of random pictures of Jack this month. Jack met my Great Aunt Carol who lives just down the street from us. She loved him, and said it was a perfect day to come because she just got her hair did. Old ladies and their hair days... Kyle, Linda, Gus and Oliver drove to Patty Ann's cabin in Panguitch to pick up an old metal twin bed frame that was Grandpa Jack's. They also picked up another bed that they took to Tyson. I don't remember whose that was. So they took fishing poles and fished a little stream. Kyle said it was freezing cold.

Kyle has been a hunting fool. He captured the cutest moment of him, Gus and Oliver. Its one of my favorite pictures. It is also one of the few times they took Oliver. He isn't the most quiet kid, which is exactly what you don't want while hunting. Poor kid just likes to talk. We took the boys to play pickle ball this month. Gus loves it Oliver not so much. Gus is actually pretty good. We should play more often. On Sundays we go up to my sisters house, there are a lot of boys between us and the picture of them wrestling is usually a normal thing there. Gus and Oliver love to fight and wrestle. There is a picture of Oliver's silhouette through his door. I finally took the side rail off of the crib he has been sleeping in and turned it into a toddler bed. Well, keeping him in bed now is next to impossible. It was pretty funny the first couple of nights to watch his silhouette and what he would do. I told Kyle I don't care if he is out of bed, as long as he stays in his room and he doesn't bother Gus. Our scorpions are alive and well still. We fed them a tarantula, the tarantula lost the fight. I can't believe me of all people has 2 scorpions on my kitchen table. They are pretty interesting to watch. Aunty Lirpa made Jack the cutest blanket. I absolutely love it. We are spoiled by her talents for sure. I called Summer the end of September and said she should fly Oliver, Jack, and me out to see them. I was feeling down and out, a lot of things had happened that made me need a getaway and a Summer and Adam fix. She willingly obliged, and booked us tickets two days later for us to fly out. I drove to STG and got on the shuttle with Oliver and Jack at 5 in the morning. It gives me anxiety just typing this. What was I thinking! Thats what I thought the entire trip there. I was worried they both were going to cry the entire drive down, luckily they didn't but could you imagine if they did? We were definitely watched over that day. They only fussed the last 10 minutes of the drive. They were champs on the plane. Oliver got a little antsy the last 20 minutes, but we had a sweet couple behind us that kept picking up all of his toys that he would drop. I still can't believe I did that. It gave me major anxiety and I kinda wanted to cry and I kept asking myself why I thought this would be a good idea, but amazingly it all worked out. The tip to the Wilson's was exactly what my soul needed. Summer is an amazing mom and she gave me lots of good ideas, the chore chart I'm still using. She gave me lots of good advice, and we decided we would be the perfect sister wives. She is the cook and I am the cleaner, and we both play with the kiddos. We went to a reptile show at the Sacramento convention center while I was there. We saw a whole lot of spiders, snakes, lizards, frogs, and crazy people that love their reptiles. A student from UC Davies had a scorpion crawling around his hand so I quizzed him a whole bunch. He said their stinger hurts less than a bee sting. which I thought was interesting. We read lots of books in Sacramento, went swimming a lot, ate at Rita's, which isn't as good as Luna's. We drove to see the Sacramento Temple, we went to church with them, both Adam and Summer bore their testimonies, we watched the kids do their primary program practice. Summer took us to Ikea, where she bought Oliver an ice cream cone. The last day we were there I made a scavenger hunt for Noah, Ava and Grant.  The end prize was Krispy Kreme donuts. I wrote on the top that they should tell their mom that Aunt Emily said they could have 2 donuts, which they did. I was laughing when I wrote that. I am so grateful for Summer and Adam's example. We had a lot of fun and I miss my sister wife already. The plane ride home was a little more stressful, the baby was hungry right when we were boarding, so he was crying Oliver was tired our flight was at 5 or something which is fussy time central at this household. The plane was a million degrees before they took off and I had two fussy kids, life was great;) Kyle picked us up in Vegas, he works there on Monday's so he just stayed a little longer and waited for me to arrive. The baby cried the entire drive home, I have decided he hates driving in the dark. That is the only time he is fussy in the car. I was so excited to see Gus, I missed him tremendously.